The Akron Beacon Journal鈥檚 new president and publisher Thursday about the newspaper鈥檚 future under its new owner, Gatehouse Media.
Bill Albrecht, , said the newspaper might be a fully-digital product in the future and that editorial page decisions will remain local.
He also said that local news is important to the paper.
鈥淥ur franchise is local. Even though Akron and the Beacon Journal are considered more of a metropolitan area or a metropolitan-sized newspaper, what we know from watching our digital traffic and what we know from what we get response to is that people want local information,鈥� Albrecht said.
Gatehouse Media earlier this year.
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